Vitality in Horses.—Some experiments have recently been made in France by persons skilled in the veterinary art,'with a view of ascertaining how long horses may live without food in certain contingencies, as, for example, being shut up ia besuiged places. The following results have been noted, a horse may live for 25 days without solid food, and merely drink water. He may live 17 days without eating or drinking. After taking solid ailment for the space often days, but with an insufficient quantity of drink the stomach is worn out. The above facts show the importance of water in the sustenance of the horse, and the desire the animal must feel to be supplied with it. A horse which had been deprived of water for the space of three days, drank 11 gallons in the space of three minutes.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XVII, Issue 986, 23 April 1862, Page 3
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